A Pitcher's Story: Innings with David Cone
- ISBN-10
- 0446554227
- ISBN-13
- 9780446554220
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-12-14
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Author
- Roger Angell
Description
Baseballs best writer offers an extraordinarily candid and thorough exploration of the inner craft of pitching from one of the games best, David Cone.There is no big league pitcher who is more respected for his skill than David Cone. In his stellar career Cone has won multiple championships andcountless professional accolades. Along the way, the perennial all-star has had to adjust to five different ballclubs, recover from a career-threatening arm aneurysm, cope with the lofty expectations that are standard for the games highest paid players, and overcome a humbling three-month, eight-game losing streak in the summer of 2000. Cone granted exclusive and unlimited access to baseballs most respected writerRoger Angell of The New Yorker. The result is just what baseball fans everywhere would expect from Angell: an extraordinary inside account of a superstar.
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